[…] forthright and astute comments on the Labour Party’s failure to take all this on board in Time Out (15 April 1987). Vague No 18/19 Programming Phenomena and Conspiracy Theory Not really a book, but not a magazine either, this is 147 A4 pages of borrowed, ripped-off articles, graphic and assorted fragments on everything from […]
[…] dates them back to ‘ancient times’, whatever that means. However, even if we go back only as far as the 18th century, how would such a ramified conspiracy communicate when the fastest transport was horse which could do what, 20-30 miles a day at most? What did the messages sent between members of the […]
[…] conditions. Guardian 5th April Police trying to buy NUM badges Guardian 19th May Police changing their ID numbers for picket duty Tribune 25th May Pickets charged with conspiracy for first time. Guardian 12th May Police threat to arrest people accommodating pickets Guardian 19th May Phone-tapping in Wales and Yorkshire. Guardian 7th April, 4th May […]
[…] be said that I am hardly the first to suggest that the Jonestown massacre was the outcome of someone’s secret machinations. The affair is inherently mysterious, and conspiracy theories abound – the most prominent among them that ‘Jonestown’ was a CIA mind-control experiment. The view has been put forward in a number of venues. […]
[…] Investigation of Recent Allegations Regarding the Assassination of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/crim/mlk/part1.htm (June 2000) This report, resulting from a DoJ investigation, rejects allegations of a conspiracy surrounding James Earl Ray and MLK’s assassination, and recommends no further federal investigation related to the assassination unless and until reliable substantiating facts are presented. Vietnam […]
Neil Nixon Harpenden: Pocket Essentials, 2002; £3.99 Pocket Essentials are the publishers who have had the taste and good sense to publish my Conspiracy Theories and The Rise of New Labour; and will publish a volume from Lobster contributor John Burnes on MI5 this year. So, yes, this is a shameless plug. However […]
[…] collection with a survey of research developing in these fields now that the Cold War is over, and includes his now customary warning of the dangers of conspiracy theorising – citing James Angleton as an example of what can happen: ‘Once contracted, conspiracy theory is an incurable condition.’ As usual, the irony of that […]
[…] publisher e-mailed me recently: ‘There is further an enormous reluctance among publishers to stick their necks out in areas like this. After all, if true, the 9-11 conspiracy renders the last 3 years of history into a nightmarish farce. Consciously or not publishers exist inside the dom-inant narratives of their culture. Even if someone […]
[…] little guy vs. Big Brother), because hackers are motivated more by malicious amusement than by genuine self-defense. More hype comes from a bizarre intersection of cyberspace with conspiracy theory: the incredible PROMIS software by Inslaw, Inc. For months I was reading accounts of how this software was revolutionary, and could track everything about everyone. […]
Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the global nuclear weapons conspiracy Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark London: Atlantic Books, 2007, £25, h/b This is not an area I have any expertise in and I am hardly competent to review this. But I found this big (500 pages), massively-documented book an absolutely riveting read. The […]
